"Quotes" that were said during build season

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Peregrinus

I'm having too much fun on here recalling quotes. This is my third consecutive post. At this point, I'm talking to myself...

It's just a new wrinkle on post traumatic stress syndrome. Good luck drumming up support for a telethon.

[Loralyn P]

"Updating a few more things."

This was from our head coach's laptop. He wanted me to update it to Windows 8.1. Long story short, it was way more difficult than it needed to be and I spent a long day waiting for it to tell me to click another thing. After several hours, the loading screens went away and I excitedly ran to the laptop to finish updating, only for that message to pop up. It knew.

It took seven hours to update everything, btw.

[Darth Drew]

Originally Posted by readerboy007

"I lost the game."
-Programming team members

Haha, this happens WAY to often on our team.

[nlj007]

Evidently the programmers thought we were being too loud in the lab...

[Ivan_Yuri]

"DARPA called, they want their chemical laser back!"

"Well why don't we use rivets to hold the panels together for a more flush finish?"
*retrieves a prototype piece left over from last year, and flips the two metal pieces right off of the three rivets holding the sheet metal apart*
"Does that answer your question?"

"You know you could just use the driver console, right?"
"... Thank you, Captain Obvious!"
"You're welcome, Sargent Sarcasm!"
".... And now you've been field-demoted to Private Pathetic...."

[Exla357]

*Me explaining electronics to shop junkie Owen*

Me: So when Ethan hits that button all the lights on those fan thingies [indicating Victors and Talons] should stop flashing and stay solid.

*Programmer Ethan hits the button to enable robot*

Owen: Three of them are still flashing

Ethan: That's an electronics problem.

Me: That's a programming problem.


Jokes on them because its ALWAYS a programming problem

[OWilliamson]

"If you liked it, then you should've put a level on it!"

[wesleyac]

"Does [X] work yet?"
"Define 'works'"

Said waaaay too often on the programming team.

[Zuelu562]

Me:"Here's a list of tasks we need to accomplish on the programming team, and my deadlines."
*Other Mentor reads this list*
"Autonomous - "When's the competition?""

[Jade Z]

Our work space has a single door where everyone enters and a double door by the machines. During drive tryouts last year, we would take our robot from Rebound Rumble through the machine doors, which took about four people, and then a few other people each to carry a folding table and a giant trash bag of foam basketballs. Naturally, this five- to ten-minute parade two or three times a week disrupted the machine shop a bit.

So, one day, our lead mechanical student covered a portion of the double doors with duct tape and wrote over it: "No drive team EVER!!!!!" And, if I remember correctly, a frowny face.

We couldn't use the single doors, so we ended up taking random machine students and asking them to open the door for us because we had been asked not to use it. It really just made the problem worse, and the same student just stood watching with her arms crossed, trying to figure out what else she could do to get us out.

I am not sure how much this affected it, but the next year, our robot was small enough to fit a little more easily through the single door.

[MichelB]

"We should have our own SI units for our robot. We'll go 10 positions (quadriture encoder) and be 15 volts (ultrasonic sensor) from the wall." -Progammers when trying to figure out sensor output conversion factors.

[E Dawg]

Said by Alex after he read all of my CD posts: "I need to stop Delphi stalking you."

Alex, if you're reading this:

[FilthyArgonian]

Originally Posted by starbound1332

From Team 564:
When in doubt hit it with a hammer! 🔨

Percussive maintenance.

[Fielding S.]

"Trust me, I'm an engineer!"

Programmers: "Am I hardware-ing correctly?"

Builders: "Am I software-ing correctly?"

After something goes wrong: "Did you remember to download more RAM?"

Machinists: "...This part isn't important, is it?"

[Jhultink]

Originally Posted by MichelB

"We should have our own SI units for our robot. We'll go 10 positions (quadriture encoder) and be 15 volts (ultrasonic sensor) from the wall."

Last year we came up with a unit: AU, or Arbitrary Units